When I am Grown: Collected Poems from Childhood

Written between the ages of nine and twenty, the poems in When I Am Grown trace a young writer's earliest encounters with beauty, grief, desire, rage, and the strange urgency of growing up. Unrevised and presented as they were first written, these poems capture a young voice grappling with love, loss, faith, darkness, and the fierce need to make sense of the world through language.This second edition features a new author's note by Toshi Casey, whose recent work includes Bee Eater and Other Poems. Raw, earnest, and unflinching, When I Am Grown is the record of a poet before she knew she was one — and a testament to the power of writing as survival. Read more